Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers
Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers
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This seems like a bad idea... What about people using hardware that needs those
This is from the article: „If there are any genuine users of these drivers remaining that are still running an upstream kernel, the drivers can always be reverted / merged back but otherwise they are gone without anyone maintaining them.“
All well and good for people who know how to do that
A lot of users won't even know what a kernel is let alone why their printer has stopped working or that they need to raise a GitHub issue
You’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.
The truth hurts.
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